. A chronological history of the discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean ; illustrated with charts. is Memoir is explanatory, and whichfronts the Title page of the present Volume, was undertaken torender parts of the narrative more intelligible; but on a behef thatit was also fit for sea use, it has been published separate. Thiswill account for the projection being circular, on which account,however, the mariner has no reason to complain of want ofaccommodation, as every degree both of latitude and longitudeis ruled, and furnishes him with compass and scale close at handin every part of
. A chronological history of the discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean ; illustrated with charts. is Memoir is explanatory, and whichfronts the Title page of the present Volume, was undertaken torender parts of the narrative more intelligible; but on a behef thatit was also fit for sea use, it has been published separate. Thiswill account for the projection being circular, on which account,however, the mariner has no reason to complain of want ofaccommodation, as every degree both of latitude and longitudeis ruled, and furnishes him with compass and scale close at handin every part of the Chart, by intersections Avhich mark the fourCardinal Points, and give him a measure of twenty maritimeleagues. The projection is on the principle of that called theGlobular (the aim of which is to preserve one proportion in thedistances and a uniformity of scale throughout the Chart), andis constructed accouliug to a Theuiem for deterininincr thecurvatures of the parallel arcs, as explained in the Appendixto Vol. 1st. End of Part III. ^ Ln1<e Hantard k Sont,ffleat Lmculue-liui f ieldi,
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